Sentences with phrase «irreversible on»

«The permafrost carbon feedback is irreversible on human time scales,» says the report, Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost.

«The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

The AR5 report defines a perturbed state as irreversible on a given timescale if the recovery timescale from this state due to natural processes is significantly longer than the time it takes for the system to reach this perturbed state (see Glossary).

I think we still need to be open to the possibility that natural variability has played a role in the recent warming of the Arctic and that the summer ice could come back, but with each year that goes by without a return to the pre-2007 summertime Arctic climatology it seems a bit more likely that the remarkable change that we have witnessed will prove to be irreversible on a human time scale.

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets present the danger of change with consequences that are irreversible on time scales important to society [1].

On the text on a large fraction of climate change being irreversible on a multi-century to millennial time scale, the Russian Federation observed that global warming was reversible as opposed to CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere that were not.

Any subsequent recovery is on such a long timescale as to make the die - back effectively irreversible on human timescales of the next 1 — 2 centuries.»

For this reason, even a total cessation of anthropogenic emissions would result in almost no significant temperature reduction for centuries, which is why I used the term «irreversible on human timescales» to describe the effect.

That's pretty clear to me; they are irreversible on times scales of interest to our survival.

The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.

Specifically, they say: «The implication is that, in the absence of efficient, large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon (emphasis mine), carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future result in a commitment to climate change that will be irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.»

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

«Ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation are essentially irreversible on centennial time scales,» found the Royal Society, a London - based group specializing in scientific research, in a 2011 paper, «[O] nce these changes have occurred, it will take centuries for the ocean to recover.

The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800 years; that we could see almost 9 °C of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human timescales».

Not exact matches

«Irreversible structural forces suggest that the next decade might see the strongest start - up activity in the Canadian economy on record,» Tal writes.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he told Kim during their secret meeting at the beginning of April that North Korea would have to agree to take «irreversible» steps toward shutting its nuclear weapons program in any deal with the United States.

Based on the available information, the EPA in 2014 determined the mine would result in a complete and irreversible loss of fish habitats in some areas of the bay.

Meanwhile, over 200 tech investors and entrepreneurs are planning to send Trump a letter today that looks past the ban, calling the order and a likely forthcoming crackdown on foreign worker visas «morally and economically misguided,» adding it will «inflict irreversible harm on the startup community and America's ability to compete globally.»

The carmaker's board said on Thursday it would ask shareholders in June to back Ghosn for another four - year term, during which he would «take decisive steps to make the alliance irreversible» and «strengthen the succession plan».

Irreversible structural forces suggest that the next decade might see the strongest startup activity in the Canadian economy on record.

Typically, the scammers trick people into running pernicious code on their computers that encrypts their contents — a process that is often irreversible, except by way of a special cryptographic key or string of digital bits.

'' [I] n our lifetime and on our watch, substantial areas of the Great Barrier Reef and the surrounding ecosystems are experiencing major long - term damage which may be irreversible unless action is taken now,» the panel writes.

All deals on the crypto - currency blockchain are irreversible.

But their agenda is to make the economic polarization between creditors and debtors irreversible, ushering in a Dark Age of austerity and deepening debt peonage in which wages, profits and property rents are earmarked to pay interest — on loans that can't be paid in a shrinking economy.

This decentralized computing network sends and records transactions on the Bitcoin «blockchain» — an immutable and irreversible ledger of every transaction that's ever taken place on the Bitcoin network.

«Because the proclamation is unlawful as applied to plaintiffs, and inflicts grave and irreversible harms on them, plaintiffs seek a declaration that the proclamation violates the Trade Act and the NAFTA Implementation Act and an injunction prohibiting its enforcements against plaintiffs,» they wrote in their more than 600 - page complaint.

On the other hand, incarnation involves a complete fusion of the «contraries»; like avatara the sense of purpose is dominant in the mission and work, but the «enfleshment» affected is irreversible; the underlying purpose of incarnation is to save the sinners, the lost, the oppressed and the poor.

«Today the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is on the verge of either an irreversible decline or a thoroughgoing transformation» is the topic sentence of Peter Steinfels» extraordinarily valuable survey...

Thus does John Updike report on Wilmot's abrupt and irreversible deconversion experience at the outset of In the Beauty of the Lilies, a four - generation saga which is partly a fictional version of Updike's family history, partly an account of the decline of religious faith in America, and partly a reflection of Updike's own angry, personal struggle to find religious meaning.

It is through human consciousness, genetically linked to a heavenly body whose days are ultimately numbered, that Evolution proclaims its challenge: either it must be irreversible, or it need not go on at all!

Just remember: The first to take on Jesus as a psychologist, though not as a medically trained psychopathologist, was the German scholar and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest critics of Christianity (who ended up suffering an irreversible mental breakdown himself) People do not willingly die for a lie.

We can imagine that an individual faced with debilitating, irreversible illness, who would have to endure intractable pain, mutilating surgery, or demeaning treatments — with added concern for the burden being placed on family and friends — might conclude that suicide was a reasonable, even generous, resolution to a process already moving inexorably toward death.

It would introduce into it a singularity, an irreversible progression, with condensations at its ritical moments, as individual points on a curve.

Does the apparently irreversible and forceful trend deconstructing modernity and some of its abuses (colonialism, rationalism, individualism, deism, naturalism, authoritarianism, the contractual mentality, a flawed approach to «sovereignty» and so on) mean that the hour of once colonised countries has come and that they will be given a real voice and be able to realise their aspiration to determine themselves freely?

This perspective is based on the position that the present capitalistic globalization is not inevitable, not uncontrollable, not irreversible.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

I have to say that based on my previous assessments long term damages have been done already and might be irreversible»

This decision was made on the basis of evidence submitted by pathologists, which stated that all the victims had by this stage suffered irreversible traumatic asphyxia.

It was decided that, by this point, each individual that would go on to perish had already suffered fatal, irreversible injury.

Barcelona on the other hand should use the money wisely and improve their squad, there is a serious risk that they are in an irreversible decline.

But the fundamental process that is irreversible is that the family must move on.

We know that low levels of iron have a subtle and irreversible impact on motor skills, problem solving, and even emotional regulation.

Feeding babies on this unnutritious product for any period of time could cause grave and irreversible health problems, including brain damage and death.

But really, by basing a decision about a permanent irreversible amputation on the Bible, you are dis - respecting the child's religious freedom, aren't you?

«And now we know more about the long - term, irreversible effects it can have on children's cognitive and behavioral development.

The project's opponents criticise the use of cyanide (a common technique used to leach gold from extracted material) which would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the region's biodiversity.

Claim 13: «The leadership of Mrs. Charlotte Osei has brought about an irreversible disunity among Commission Members to the extent that she is not on speaking terms with the deputies and other Commission members.

On the other hand, EU officials insist that «the EU must see a permanent, binding, sustainable and irreversible normalization of relations» with Kosovo.

World leaders struck a compromise on Saturday to move forward collectively on climate change without the United States, declaring the Paris accord «irreversible» while acknowledging Trump's decision to withdraw from the agreement.